Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students who marry and have children while under a temporary draft deferment will not be eligible for permanents deferment, if President Eisenhower approves a new Selective Service proposal...
After a study of the draft situation, the Manpower Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization has recommended modification of present Selective Service regulations concerning the status of student fathers. The plan would result in the early induction of about 20,000 fathers, draft officials predicted yesterday...
...Administration is also at present reported to be considering the possibility of a civil defense draft of both men and women. Val Peterson, civil defense administrator, stated, "I don't want to have to do it but I wouldn't hesitate to ask for a draft." He indicated that millions more than the four million present civil defense volunteers are needed...
Tayler and his committee will meet early next week to draft a rough outline of their report. He said the group will confer with the freshman deans before submitting the report...
...Civil War is there a U.S. parallel to what Rhee and his people are up against. The economy is shot to pieces. Some 75% of all mines and textile factories have suffered severe damage. Those industries which can function lack parts for maintenance and equipment for repair. The draft has absorbed much of the country's youth, but there are still thousands of unemployed. Resourceful businessmen struggle with makeshift merchandise: they offer for sale cooking utensils fashioned from the aluminum of wrecked planes, buckets beaten out of old oleomargarine cans, canoe-shaped rubber sneakers made from worn-out truck...